I’m not tied to Evernote software for this project. Any ideas on an alternative? I want to email in random thoughts+photos from IOS and when I get back to my Mac I rearrange and edit notes slightly then export it into a single DOCX (or HTML).

It would need the ability to email-into the software various notes containing ad-hoc text and photos. If that software understood the correct orientation (and could resize automatically) of an iOS photo that would be ideal (that misunderstanding seems to be a common problem across lots of software). I do need to be able to merge those notes together (easy-manually or KM/Applescript) and I do need to be able to export them to HTML or DOCX. I note also that the note layout with photos gets screwed up in Evernote. All of this sounds simple but I can’t find any software that can do this.

Back to Evernote and my OP: Maybe I could find a way to use KM to correctly reorientate just the originally “portrait” photos? And to resize all photos to a consistent size. By pressing buttons on the Evernote dialogs. Not obvious how to ID the correct photos etc. though.

P.S. Another problem is the messed up Evernote Layout – If you mail-in 5 photos separated by 5 lots of descriptive text (one per photo) you will get in Evernote 5 batches of text followed by 5 photos. Can KM/AppleScript address any of this?

I’d like to loop over all 10 of the notes in my 1 notebook and fix the orientation problems and set the size to be consistent.

Here’s a macro that does some of what you are asking for.
It operates on one Evernote Note at a time, and rotates the selected image (to the left) using the Preview app, and then saves back to Evernote.

Of course you can change and add to what is done in Preview.
Hopefully this will get you started. Since it requires you to manually select the image (by moving the mouse over the image), I don’t see any way to automate the process for a bunch of Notes.